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June 25, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 25, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, but you know that.
It's the EIB network, and you know that too.
And a phone number on Open Line Friday, 800 282-2882.
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It's open line Friday.
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Apparently the refuge, the wildlife refuge, is open.
It's uh there's been a lot of exaggeration about it being shut down.
Uh did some more checking here during the top of the hour break, and uh apparently the refuge is open, and there's a lot of a lot of uh misinformation about it's been shut down and what's going on uh in there.
Now uh it this is the the BP slush fund is now official from the AP.
IRS says it wants its share of BP payments received by oil spill victims.
Told you this is gonna happen.
I I it's it's it's it's a tragedy out there.
These people have been put out of work for a host of reasons, including by President Obama, not just the BP spill.
He shut down drilling throughout the Gulf.
So now you got the $20 billion slush fund that BP was shaken down for.
That money you have to apply for it through Ken Feinberg, if you've been damaged uh as a result, but the IRS has made it official.
You will pay under current law, British petroleum payments for lost wages are taxable, just like the lost wages would have been taxable.
The IRS says that payments for physical injuries or property loss are generally tax-free.
So what's going to happen here?
The IRS planning to hold forums in seven cities in the Gulf region on July 17th to help oil spill victims with tax troubles or questions.
So basically, they're gonna come down there and have a little seminar and they're gonna explain to you how you are going to pay taxes on whatever you get, whatever your share is from the BP 20 billion dollar slush fund.
Uh why why why why didn't Obama take care of this in the shakedown terms?
I'm kidding.
Obama wants the money.
Obama's looking for the little guy, he wants the money.
Uh I I I'm forced to comment on something here because uh, you know what?
It reminds me a little bit of this how we've apparently some people have exaggerated, I don't know who, but some people have exaggerated this notion that the Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge has been shut down.
I got my Apple iPhone 4, and I've I activated and I've been using it.
And I go to all the iPhone and Apple blogs.
I'm a I'm I mean, I'm an Apple evangel.
I mean, they ought to be paying me.
I mean they won't, but they ought to be paying me.
Now there is a story circulating about the new iPhone 4.
They've got what's what's new about the iPhone 4, one of the things new is the case on all four edges is stainless steel.
Glass in the front, glass in the back, stainless steel edges.
Uh, and those edges are the antenna for GPS, for Wi-Fi, for Bluetooth, for 3G, for Edge.
Uh, pretty much everything you have to have.
Now, I've been looking at these blogs, and a lot of people are claiming that when they hold their iPhone in their left hand, and if their hand covers the lower left-hand corner of the phone, their signal drops.
They lose all of their cellular signal.
Well, I've been trying to duplicate that, and I can't duplicate it.
My I am not losing one bar.
I don't lose signal strength at all when I pick up the phone and hold it.
But these these Apple blogs, I mean, they're making it sound like it's happening to everybody.
And Apple has responded, uh responded.
They said, well, don't hold the phone that way.
I really did.
They said, don't hold the phone that.
Well, I wish I had the phone in front of me.
I got a charging over there.
But there's no other way to if you if you hold the phone in your left hand, there's really no way to avoid having the lower left-hand corner intersect the thumb ball of your hand area.
To hold the phone the other way.
Now you can buy a rubber edge, they've sold out of these two.
You can buy a rubber edge to put around the phone, and they're all these cool little colors.
I wouldn't dare.
I wouldn't dare put some candy toy rubber band on this phone to cover up the uh the stainless steel.
Um I I don't know.
Uh I have seen I've seen these reports.
Some people are dropping calls and dropping signal, but I it's not happening to me.
And I don't mean to be bragging about it.
I'm just telling you, I've tried to duplicate the problem.
I've walked inside the house, I've walked outside the house, I've aimed it in different directions, and I can't just by picking up the phone, I do not lose strength.
The bars stay the same.
Uh I mean, there's the normal fluctuation.
I mean, you're gonna lose a bar here, depending on what area you go to.
If you're driving, you lose a bar, you pick one up now and then, but these people are saying you lose it entirely.
Uh and and I haven't.
Now, so uh I uh Apple solutions don't hold a phone that way.
And uh there are iPhone ads showing people holding phones the wrong way.
Oh, the camera.
What?
Yeah.
There are I forgot to turn the camera on, sorry about that, folks.
It's pure accident.
Look at you wouldn't believe the distractions going on here today.
It's amazing this show is even taking place.
You want to know what's happened here in the first 15 minutes of this program, lost internet, lost email.
Still don't have email.
I have not been able we got internet back, but we don't have email back.
Never.
You don't have internet back in there?
I'm the only one that's got internet.
Okay, because I've got the cable modem backup.
We're on ATT fiber optics.
There's a problem down in Miami.
We know what the problem is.
But every time I've lost the primary, we go to cable as a backup, and everything's back.
Email and internet.
I don't have email.
Any email.
I've done understand it.
I mean a computer people trying to explain to me, and I have not gotten a satisfactory explanation because every time we've lost a line in the past, the backup line provides everything else.
Now I'm getting this gobbledygook about IP addresses and DNS addresses and and gizmodos about why the email uh can't be seen by our backup uh cable modem.
So this has me scratching my finger for the last two and a half hours and had to, you know, but I don't get an upfront.
I'd actually question four times, a yes or no question, four times.
And it took me four times while the program's going on here, folks, and I want the computer.
Would you it's yes or no?
And so that's going on then.
Dawn, she's in there, she transcribes your phone calls in case you're on a bad cell signal or when I can't understand you.
Her computer monitor blew up.
There's an explosion in there at the same time.
The audio level that I hear in my cochlear implant has died 25 times in the middle of this program.
It's it's it's a it's I and I asked the computer guy, are we being hacked here?
Oh no, no, there's no way.
Well, there's a lot of coincidences going on here.
My audio level shot, a computer monitor blows up, we lose the internet.
Uh the air conditioning in the bathroom isn't working, by the way.
I was just in there, bro.
I wouldn't even gonna burden you with that, but that's not working.
I may as well unload on everything here.
I'll bet you when I get out and get in my car, something's happened there, and my key won't start it.
And I'll say, well, that's because the DNS server doesn't see the cable backup modem.
Well, that's never happened before.
Why is it happening now?
In the meantime, I'm having to look up whether or not the Mexicans have taken over a wildlife refuge in the state of Arizona, all while this show is going on here to try to be as accurate as I can, and I have to put up with people who want to hear.
Grab audio soundbite number 15.
Listen to this.
Chris Matthews will not give it up.
I gotta salute Rush.
I've never seen a guy on a radio, he doesn't do television, he has one medium of expression, the voice.
He doesn't put on guests.
He has a good golf game, I figure he's kept up his tan.
He's got a good lifestyle.
Congratulations on your marriage.
He enjoys his life, and with like his left hand, he runs the entire Republican party.
Congratulations until somebody dethrones you, Rush Bow.
Congratulations on ruling an entire political party of ditto heads.
So I mean, he f he's for 45 days.
He has been begging any Republican to come on and denounce me as the leader, and none of them will.
45 days.
So finally he said that, but that came, grab soundbite 14.
That came after this on his show last week.
It's been 44 days since we first issued that challenge out on a limbaugh.
Rush is loving it, but Rush can't believe it.
How Rush can cow an entire party.
That includes Rush Limbaugh.
It's been 44 days since I challenged any Republican to come on and disagree with Rush Limbaugh and no takers.
Why are Republicans so afraid of disagreeing with El Rushbow?
It's been 44 days since we invited Republican office others to come on our show and say that Rush Limbaugh is not the leader.
Rush went out there and took the side of BP more on L. Rush, but he is so proud of himself, took the side of the Republican leadership against Rush Limbaugh, and after a few hours of withering attack from Rush and his people, he buckled and apologized to Rush Limbaugh, taking the side of his party leadership against Rush Bow.
The Rush Barton shakedown line.
We thought Republicans had their chance to take their stand with their leaders and say, Rush, oh Rush, we hate to say this, but you're wrong.
I asked U.S. Congressman Scalise from Louisiana if he agreed with Rush.
Rush Limbaugh is really the Republican Party today.
That's sort of tribalist right-wing view you get from Rush Limbaugh.
I gotta salute Rush until somebody dethrones you, Rush Bow.
Just one of them to say that he or she disagrees with Rush.
When Rush went so far as to back BP, we had a congressman from Louisiana on this week.
Not even he would side with his party's leadership and take on Rush.
Out onto a limbaugh.
While saying Rush didn't speak for him, that he spoke for himself, he still would not complete the thought and say, darn it, Rush is wrong, couldn't do it.
Let me finish tonight with our lively interchange with Rush Limbaugh.
That's a montage of this whole week.
We didn't.
It was half the show.
We did not repeat any of it.
We did not none of those segments were repeats.
Every one of those things was actually said.
And and and here comes the the the next bite what you previously heard.
The uh the begrudging respect.
I mean, it's almost it's almost like Matthews is in awe, but he's not getting a tingle up his leg about me.
That's still reserved for Obama.
Well, I gotta salute Rush.
I've never seen a guy on a radio.
He doesn't do television, he has one medium of expression, the voice, he doesn't put on guests, he has a good golf game, I figure he's kept up his tan, he's got a good lifestyle, and congratulations on your marriage.
He enjoys his life, and with like his left hand, he runs the entire Republican Party.
Congratulations until somebody dethrones you, Rush Bow.
Congratulations on ruling an entire political party of ditto heads.
So I'm out there doing all this stuff, and then this is as an as an afterthought.
Uh with my left hand, I'm running the entire Republican Party.
Chris, thank you very much.
I know you're sincerely mean that.
And I know exactly what you mean when you say it, and I appreciate it.
I just I wonder how he would compare uh my abilities to um those of the teleprompter Messiah.
One more.
Uh, this is uh Greta Van Sustran last night on the record on the Fox News channel.
And this she's reviewing my comments about Obama and Dmitry Medvedev going out for a burger.
This isn't something you hear every day.
Rush Limbaugh has got President Obama's back.
Well, at least for that ham grim lunch with the Russian president.
I've often thought, and I've even commented on it on this program.
Why do you think this guy, when he I think half the reason he leaves the white house to go get a burger because his wife is making him eat watercress and bamboo in there?
He wants to get out and have some real food, have some fries, some onion rings, some burgers.
Look what this guy leaves the white house and look at what he eats.
I mean, it's real food.
Who knows what they're feeding the poor guy in the White House?
Bamboo.
Well, that doesn't sound very appealing, does it?
Especially because there's a shortage of it.
All those Bamboo steamers out there.
The pandas are even having trouble finding bamboo.
Greetings, folks, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh on Open Line Friday.
It's getting tougher and tougher and tougher to understand Barney Frank.
And you will hear what I mean in mere moments.
He was on CNBC's Power Lunch.
The co-host Michelle Caruso Cabrera.
She said to Barney Frank, will this bill that you and Dodd just worked up here?
Will this will this bill prevent a future crisis?
It will make it very, very unlikely that we will have the same kind of crisis.
There may be something new and different.
But you could not have an AIG situation, for example.
One of the most important things we did is to change the whole set of rules that led to bad loans.
Bad loans were at the heart of this.
We have very specific restrictions on bad subprime loans.
We don't allow them.
There will be no more AIDs being kept alive.
Any institution that gets to the point where it can't pay its debts, and the government has to step in, will die.
And we will then have to deal with the consequences, but with funds that are raised, not from taxpayers, but from assessments on financial institutions.
But they don't have any money by definition.
We're going to bail out.
That's that's another lying, stinking portion of this bill.
We're going to bail out financial institutions because they're going to put the money in the tank.
Well, where do they get their money?
They don't print it.
It's all consumer money invested, whatever.
But the goal of this guy, this was a problem he created.
And now he's blaming it on AIG.
And he's pretending he fixed the crisis.
That he created.
It is outrageous.
He says here, that maybe something new and difficult.
Good not haven't a G situation, for example.
One of the most poor things that we did.
It's a host of the wolf.
The led to the bad wounds.
The bad wounds.
Yeah, the bad loans are the heart of it.
And you demanded the bad loans be made.
One time.
I know some of you are driven crazy by this.
I'm not.
I'm host.
I like it.
We're gonna play it.
And I actually think half of the people claiming they don't like it actually do like it.
Just being contrarian, trying to control the program.
Barney Frank, no doubt now, the banking queen.
Oh, yeah, you remember this, long timers.
Original Barney Frank update theme.
Millie Small and my boy Lollipop.
Millie Small and my boy Lollipop.
One of the most important things that we did.
There will be no more, no more subprime loans.
But there will be lots of this.
Oh all the way back to my.
Well, what is it?
Childhood.
What are you?
What's the next stage after childhood?
Incandescence, not incandescent-less, analysis.
No, no, not pubes.
It's adolescence.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program.
And we'll be right back.
This is too funny.
The course is for 30 people.
The students are going to have to write research papers.
But I wonder what the final exam's going to be.
What I'm talking about here is, folks, I'm watching this on Mess NBC.
Some guy is a college professor is going to start teaching a course on the Gulf Oil Spill.
I don't know which.
Oh, University of Minnesota.
This Professor Robert Gilmore.
That's who he is.
Professor Robert Gilmore, University of Minnesota to offer course on Gulf Oil Disaster.
He's going to divide this up into three parts.
The first course, first part of the course is going to be the history of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the history of spills in the Gulf of Mexico.
The second phase of the course is Going to focus on the spill itself and the and environmentalism in a third uh uh phase of the course is what do we do now?
What do we do now?
What does it cost to go to the University of Minnesota?
So there you have it.
A course on the Professor Robert Gilbour, he's probably a good guy.
I don't know.
He's gonna discourse uh here on the spill.
Uh, where do we go now?
What do we do now?
Research papers will be written by the 30 students taking the course.
What will the final exam be?
And will there be field trips?
Folks, there's a story here, speaking of field trips.
California welfare recipients withdrew 1.8 million dollars at casino ATMs over eight month 18 months.
Uh Governor uh Schwarzenegger issued an executive order requiring recipients to promise they will use cash benefits only to meet basic subsistence needs.
Republican legislators have called for the cash to be returned.
Uh what they have to promise not to do this again, is that the deal?
California welfare recipients using state-issued debit cards, withdrew more than 1.8 million dollars in taxpayer money on casino floors between October 2009 and last month.
Governor Schwarzenegger issued an executive order requiring welfare recipients to promise that they will use cash benefits only to meet basic subsistence needs of their families.
Well, what's that?
What are the if you're a welfare recipient in California, what are the basic subsistence needs for you and your family.
Well, I know it.
Nuggets, mac and cheese with butter, scratch off lottery tickets, um blackjack, uh video poker.
Now, since folks, do you take this personally?
I mean, can you can you imagine the the way to understand this is if if you had a deadbeat member of your family, and you you gave them a debit card of whatever, 500 bucks a month, and you found them at the Mohegan Sun, or you found them at the Wynn Casino or the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
And then it's your money that you've earned.
And they're out there in the casinos.
You know what happens in the casinos, they lose it all.
And then you make them promise that they won't do it again.
Now, here the the dirty little secret is that these these debit cards, the cash benefits are can be accessed anywhere.
It is it's hilarious to pretend that restricting them at casinos will stop welfare recipients from spending taxpayer monies at you can go to an ATM and get the cash and go to the casino.
It's gonna be a little harder work, it'll be a little bit more industrious as a welfare recipient, but you can still end up with the cash in the casino.
They're only saying you can't go to the casino ATM.
Well, you can still go to the casino.
Uh anybody who has ever been to a casino or a racetrack, you ever been to a casino or a racetrack?
You've been to OTB in New York, Snerdley.
You you know that without a doubt, many of the denizens of such places are using welfare benefits to gamble, looking for the the big payday, the big payoff.
And for guys like Schwarzenegger to pretend to be shocked at this, he is laughable.
1.8 billion dollars from casino ATMs.
Even without easy access to ATM cash, welfare recipients are going to use their benefits to gamble.
Uh they have to have something to do to while away their idle hours.
And casinos are air conditioned.
And if you sit at the right place, you get free drink, you know, while you're playing 21 or blackjack.
It's got everything you need.
So here's Schwarzenegger.
You better, you better promise you will not go into the casino with the money.
Now, Heritage Foundation, by the way, speaking of this, Heritage Foundation is um he's out with a new report on the state of welfare, Obama's welfare state, actually, uh, which may be how you feel after you hear and read the details.
The most jarring of all discoveries is that welfare spending in Obama's 2011 budget next year, get ready is up forty-two percent from where it was in 2008.
Up forty-two percent in three years if Obama gets its way, and the and the Democrats in Congress, we're not going to do a budget.
We're gonna wait for this deficit commission to do it, we're not gonna do a budget.
They're going to abrogate their responsibility.
Now, this for those of you in real lindo, let me give you another way to look at this.
That's a plus fourteen percent increase in welfare spending three years in a row.
Per year.
A 14% increase every year.
Now, this takes into consideration both the federal and state welfare spending, the biggest piece being from the feds, of course.
Already, you see, New Jersey and New York trying to reduce their welfare budgets because they don't have any money, but you don't hear anything from the Obama White House that would suggest we cut our welfare program spending.
The whole report is available, served up on the Heritage Foundation's website.
They released it just uh yesterday afternoon.
Now the Heritage Foundation is constantly researching about a dozen or more heady topics at a time.
This latest report on welfare is an example of how thorough they all are.
And they don't just report on the facts, they also propose solutions, which is why they had some 600 briefings with staffers on Capital Here uh Hill last year alone.
And you, as a member of the Heritage Foundation, incidentally get all this info, yet access to it if you are a member.
And you do that online at AskHeritage.org.
It's as simple as logging on and signing up, and it is a but a mere $25 a year to make yourself a member of the Heritage Foundation.
You can give more than that if you want, but the the minimum is um is 25 snackers.
Ask Heritage.org.
This is Jennifer in Las Vegas.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh hello, Rush.
It is an honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much.
And congratulations on your marriage with Catherine.
Thank you.
Um I'm a little bit nervous.
You don't sound it.
Oh, I don't?
No.
Oh, okay.
Well, I just wanted to uh you're projecting very well.
You're projecting with confidence, verve, vigor, and and assuredness.
Oh, well, thank you very much.
You bet.
Okay, I have been a longtime listener right from the get-go.
So I've missed here and there because of work and whatever.
Uh, but my husband and I are a big supporter of Arizona, and as you know, we live here in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada.
Right.
And uh last May we went to Arizona for a weekend trip.
This weekend we're going to Arizona for my birthday.
And next September we're going down to Sierra Vista for 10 days.
In support of Arizona.
Why this sounds like economic stimulus to me.
Yeah, we're gonna spend our vacation dollars down there.
They're gonna need it to fight the regime.
Uh so, but oh, could I make a quick comment about the hurricane?
Oh, by all me.
Well, there isn't one yet.
But uh oh, you know you're yeah, go ahead, but you reminded me of something phenomenal about that hurricane enrich in 1979.
I forgot to mention it.
But go ahead.
Well, I don't think that there's gonna be hurricanes this year.
Because of global warming.
Because of global warming.
Like things.
There's a there's uh do you know do you know the name Joe Bastardi at uh at Acuweather?
Uh no, I don't know.
Well, Joe's a good guy, and he's uh he's a friend of our official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer.
And uh and Joe has has been ramping up his hurricane predictions, he says it's gonna be a major, major year.
And Joe tries to make the case that we here in Florida are going to get creamed.
I mean, I mean, we're gonna get pummeled, according to Joe Bastardi at Acuweather.
And he's a good guy.
Don't misunderstand.
I but I I want to get in the prediction game too, because uh the my prediction probably as good as anybody else's.
And before I get my hurricane prediction for this season, Hurricane Henri, 1979, the same year as the Ixstock One oil spill, a huge one, dwarfs this one in Mexico.
Hurricane Henri never struck land.
It never went ashore.
That's almost unheard of.
Hurricane Henri 1979 forms in the Gulf and died there.
And I mention this because there's a there's some thinking with all the oil on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, or however much it is, that the oil might in fact retard uh hurricane formation in the Gulf of Mexico, because there were only five hurricanes in 1979.
Hurricane Henri did form, but it never struck land.
And that's that's I don't know if it's coincidence or if there's some scientific relevance to it.
My hurricane prediction is that there will be between zero and forty uh storms before the season ends.
My next prediction is that between zero and forty of them will become uh tropical cyclones.
Between zero and forty of them will become major category three or above storms, and between zero and forty of these will strike uh somewhere on the United States coast, either the East Coast, the Gulf Coast, or the uh uh well that would cover it.
Between zero and forty, and there's also between zero and forty will not strike the U.S. coastline.
And there you have it, and I live in Florida.
So that makes me a hurricane expert.
Ha, Harry Urush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, and the Doctor of Democracy.
We are back.
By the way, uh uh about uh Hurricane Henri, uh, ladies and gentlemen, the big thing about Hurricane Henri, 1979, the year of the Ixtock uh oil spill, the Gulf Coast had no hurricanes all year.
Zip zeronada.
Now, could be a coincidence, but wouldn't it be ironic if the BP spill saves the Gulf Coast from their annual hurricane devastation?
But I mean, there's still devastation from the uh from the oil spill.
The real losers there are the media, who just sitting around, you know, they're going back and forth.
They're just they're salivating.
They see that potential hurricane down there off the Yucatan, and they're just it's like Al Gore in a massage parlor.
Trying to, oh, they just want that thing that form.
But then they don't.
Uh Peggy West, uh, hear the audio again.
Peggy West, uh Milwaukee County Supervisors meeting, big advocate of the uh Milwaukee boycott of Arizona.
If this was Texas, which is the state that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this, saying that they had a major issue with you know, with undocumented people flooding their borders.
I would say I would I would have to look twice at this.
But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border.
That's Peggy West in uh in Milwaukee claiming Arizona is uh a state that's a ways removed from the border.
John Kyle, Arizona senator has confirmed, in fact, that uh Arizona is on the border with Mexico.
Kyle sent Peggy West a letter in which he says you'll be interested to learn that Arizona does indeed share a border with Mexico.
I've enclosed a map for your convenience.
So it has been confirmed, we're the first to announce it.
Senator Kyle has confirmed for Peggy West that Arizona does, in fact, border Mexico.
Uh Jerry in Rome, New York, your next open line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Yeah, uh hi, Rush.
Uh, it's Gary in Rome, New York.
Yeah, Gary, thanks very much.
Uh, listen, that uh first of all, it's an honor and a pleasure to finally be uh be able to say hello to you.
Thank you very much, Zeke.
I've been listening to you for uh since 1989.
Appreciate that.
I I told your screener, I apologize for maybe changing the uh uh the uh um the the scene of what's going on with your conversation today, but uh open line, right?
Right.
And um I tried to get a hold of you uh many times over the years, but uh more specifically uh over your 20th anniversary, and uh um I've always wanted to tell you that um and your listeners that um I've been listening to you for since 1989, and uh appreciated every every uh every moment.
And um more specifically, the first time that I was uh listening to you, I was changing the radio dial to try and actually find someone else, but I found you, and you were in the middle of uh uh heartfelt apology to your listening audience.
What did I do?
I got five seconds.
What did I do?
You were listening, you you were telling your audience you apologize heartfeltly for I don't know if you hung up on them or if you went off on him, uh, but you didn't give him the courtesy that you felt he deserved.
Oh, uh that was a caller abortion.
No, I know I remember that specifically a caller abortion.
That's what it was.
The Associated Press says that Vice President Bite Me is heading to the Gulf Coast.
Senior Obama regime officials tells the AP that uh vice president Bightney traveled to the Gulf Coast on Tuesday to review the efforts to combat the massive oil spill.
Now, this actually makes sense that uh Vice President Bitney would go though down there because he is the man with all the plugs, and Obama said plug to them ho!
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